A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster. After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child--this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes,...
Orphans
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Author:Barker, J. D.Summary: - Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth...
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Author:Grosso, AlissaSummary:Everyone in Shallow Pond knows the Bunting Sisters. Nobody knows their Secrets. Annie is the oldest. The sickly one who gave up on her own life so she could raise her sisters after their parents died. Gracie is the wild child. She wants...
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Author:Hartinger, BrentSummary:"I just devoured the book, a good story for any age." —ALAN CHEUSE, NPR's "All Things Considered" Zach lives with his grandparents on a remote island in Puget Sound in Washington State. With only his little brother, Gilbert, to keep him...
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Author:Pullman, PhilipSummary:In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation...
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Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary:After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
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Author:Orca Book PublishersSummary:In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are...
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A set of linked YA novels of orphan girls uncovering the secrets of the families they have never known.
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Author:Lindquist, LynnSummary:Everyone at Singer, a boarding school for underprivileged kids, knows the urban legend of the Society of Seven. Nearly two decades ago, the original members of this exclusive guild murdered the school’s founder and then perished in the...
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
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Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
- Author:Harper, HelenSummary:
My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes-but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn...
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Author:Adler, Susan S.Summary:Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-new century, a time when new ideas and inventions are changing everyone's lives. Samantha's own world is filled with elegance and privilege...
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Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
- Author:James, EldridgeSummary:
Bang! Billy Joe Ford s’arrêta net dans son élan quand le coup de feu retentit dans la nuit. Il pourrait s’agir d’un des prospecteurs qui tiraient sur un coyote, mais Billy Joe savait d’instinct que ce n’était pas le cas. Les chasseurs...
- Author:Gabhart, Ann H.Summary:
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and...
- Author:Renaud, Jean-BaptisteSummary:
Au milieu des années 30, Rémi, un jeune garçon se retrouve orphelin et est recueilli par un oncle très malcommode. S’enfuyant de chez lui, il rencontre sur son chemin Luc-John, un jeune Amérindien, qui s’est évadé d’un pensionnat...
- Author:JONES, V. M.Summary:
Adam discovers a secret, there was not one baby prince, but two. Zephyr, Prince of the Wind, and Zenith, Prince of the Sun. Adam's search for Zenith, a twin four times his own age, takes him over the Plains of the Dead to the outer...
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Author:Berger, Tamara FaithSummary:It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator -- until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has...
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